The story behind this dramatic photo of Syrians waiting for food

By Meg Wagner, Digital First Media

Posted:
02/26/2014 06:51:30 PM PST

Updated:
02/26/2014 06:51:40 PM PST

The story behind this dramatic photo of Syrians waiting for food

This is what hunger looks like.An aid worker with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency took this photo last month while the group delivered food to supplies to Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus.The camp has suffered food and medicine shortages since July when the government began shutting checkpoints into the area, but the government began allowing some humanitarian aid in mid-January. Residents of Syria's besieged Palestinian Yarmouk refugee camp crowd as food is distributed by the United ...